Computer illiterate needs help migrating

[eggpap]

Thanks David and all the members of this forum.
Sorry David to have written to you directly.
I am Emiliano Paperetti not Emily Wilson, that I thank to have asked a
question
usefull for me also.
I have a W7Pro 64 bit OS system and installed GC 32 bit.
David's reply has been very usefull for me.

Thanks again,
Emiliano

On 20 September 2016 at 15:05, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Emily has become Emiliano??
>
> It is better to post on the forum rather than emailing me directly.  You
> will get answers from a greater range of people who may have more direct
> experience related to your problem. For example one of the Gnucash
> developers John Ralls tacked on additional comments to my post. John works
> on a Mac so his comments are more specific to the Mac environment ( e.g.
> Mac
> file locations) whereas I work on Unix. Many things are the same on
> different systems with regard to internal operation of Gnucash but the
> details of the installation and file locations particularly can be
> operating
> system dependent. Others may be able to comment  from experience from the
> details you have described.
>
> It is possible although given the names on the rest of the files I would
> have expected it to be contomio.gnucash.  The concatenation of the
> filenames
> indicates that you may have opened a backup file rather than the original
> file and that a backup of it has been created in turn. If the original file
> is not there, try going through the backup files starting with the most
> recent to see if you can find one which has the original account structure
> it.  If you do find one which has the intact account structure then you
> could rename it to a <new filename>.gnucash. It is possible you may lose
> any
> transactions which have been entered since the original backup file was
> opened. If you can list  the files with the date they were created it may
> help in sorting this out. The chances are your last good backup will be
> named contomio.gnucash.201609171119
>
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 20/09/16 22:08, eggpap wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a  file named "structure.gnucash"
> > Is it the  <filename>.gnucash you have said?
> > I have also a same name mmb file
> > Moreover I have very long filename backup and log files like
> > contomio.gnucash.201609171119.gnucash.201609180934.gnucash.
> 20160918100041.gnucash
> > or
> > contomio.gnucash.201609171119.gnucash.201609180934.gnucash.
> 20160918100041.log
> > Sometimes I get an alert that says GnuCash is not able to save a copy of
> > such files.
> > Maybe it depends on the number of backup/log files that I have selected
> to
> > keep?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Emiliano
>
>
>
>
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